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Suicide Research (suicide + research)
Selected AbstractsHow people live with or get over being suicidal: a review of qualitative studiesJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 2 2008Richard Lakeman Abstract Title.,How people live with or get over being suicidal: a review of qualitative studies Aim., To systematically review qualitative research which addresses how people live with suicidality or recover a desire to live. Background., Suicide is a pressing social and public health problem. Much emphasis in suicide research has been on the epidemiology of suicide and the identification of risk and protective factors. Relatively little emphasis has been given to the subjective experiences of suicidal people, but this is necessary to inform the care and help provided to individuals. Data sources., Electronic searches of CINAHL Plus with full text, Medline and PsychArticles (included PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts and Sociological abstracts) were undertaken for the period from 1997 to April 2007. In addition, the following journals were hand searched (1997,2007): ,Mortality', ,Death Studies', ,Archives of Suicide Research' and ,Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention'. Method., A systematic review of the literature and thematic content analysis of findings. The findings were extracted from selected papers and synthesized by way of content analysis in narrative and tabular form. Findings., Twelve studies were identified. Analysis revealed a number of interconnected themes: the experience of suffering, struggle, connection, turning points and coping. Conclusions., Living with or overcoming suicidality involves various struggles, often existential in nature. Suicide may be seen as both a failure and a means of coping. People may turn away from suicide quite abruptly through experiencing, gaining or regaining the right kind of connection with others. Nurses working with suicidal individuals should aspire to be identified as people who can turn people's lives around. [source] Elder suicide research, theory and treatment John L. McIntosh, John F. Santos, Richard W. Hubbard and James C. Overholser.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY, Issue 8 20011994., The American Psychological Association No abstract is available for this article. [source] Ethical suicide research: A survey of researchersINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 1 2009Richard Lakeman ABSTRACT Research is needed to better understand and respond effectively to people who are suicidal. Involving people who are suicidal in research poses some ethical and pragmatic problems. The ethical problems and difficulties in obtaining approval to involve people who are suicidal in research has contributed to the current paucity of research that explores the suicidal experience. To explore some of these problems, a web-based survey of suicide researchers was undertaken. Researchers identified from published reports were contacted by email and invited to participate in a web-based survey. Researchers were asked to describe any problems they encountered, how ethical problems were negotiated or resolved, and any advice received from human research ethics committees. The main problems identified were accessing the population, maintaining confidentiality, the extent of care owed by the researcher to participants, and the facilitation of support to participants. As with clinical practice, ethical research involving people who are suicidal involves a process of sensitive engagement, and careful consideration and remediation of risk. [source] How people live with or get over being suicidal: a review of qualitative studiesJOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, Issue 2 2008Richard Lakeman Abstract Title.,How people live with or get over being suicidal: a review of qualitative studies Aim., To systematically review qualitative research which addresses how people live with suicidality or recover a desire to live. Background., Suicide is a pressing social and public health problem. Much emphasis in suicide research has been on the epidemiology of suicide and the identification of risk and protective factors. Relatively little emphasis has been given to the subjective experiences of suicidal people, but this is necessary to inform the care and help provided to individuals. Data sources., Electronic searches of CINAHL Plus with full text, Medline and PsychArticles (included PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts and Sociological abstracts) were undertaken for the period from 1997 to April 2007. In addition, the following journals were hand searched (1997,2007): ,Mortality', ,Death Studies', ,Archives of Suicide Research' and ,Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention'. Method., A systematic review of the literature and thematic content analysis of findings. The findings were extracted from selected papers and synthesized by way of content analysis in narrative and tabular form. Findings., Twelve studies were identified. Analysis revealed a number of interconnected themes: the experience of suffering, struggle, connection, turning points and coping. Conclusions., Living with or overcoming suicidality involves various struggles, often existential in nature. Suicide may be seen as both a failure and a means of coping. People may turn away from suicide quite abruptly through experiencing, gaining or regaining the right kind of connection with others. Nurses working with suicidal individuals should aspire to be identified as people who can turn people's lives around. [source] Conducting suicide research in naturalistic clinical settings,JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2009David A. Jobes Abstract Unique challenges arise for clinical researchers designing studies focused on suicidal behaviors due to the inherently high-risk nature of such research. Traditional approaches to clinical trial design are briefly discussed, highlighting the limitations and obstacles of these approaches when working with suicidal individuals. Using their own personal experiences and setbacks from an ongoing clinical suicidology research program, the authors argue for greater emphasis on effectiveness and translational research designs conducted in naturalistic clinical settings to test the practical utility of empirically-supported treatments for suicidal behaviors, to gain new perspectives on suicidal individuals, and to better understand the nature of suicidal risk. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 65:1,14, 2009. [source] | ||||||||||